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6/28/2025, 6:47:09 PM
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The context immediately before the quotation is Jonson chastising William for joking around too much, "His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Cæsar..."
Jonson is remembering William messing around with the lines. Nowhere does Jonson say in the text that William wrote Julius Caesar.
Jonson in Poet Ape and Ode To Himself talks about William buying and using old plays. He satirises North and William in Epicene and Every Man out of His Humour and satirises their relationship in Cynthia's Revels.
Shakespeare most likely authored what we have as the "Bad Quartos" i.e. the stage adapations of North's texts. He also likely wrote Merry Wives of Windor and probably the apocrypha. These trivial but successful works fit well with Jonson's criticism of Shakespeare as unlearned and something of a clown and his actors stating "he never blotted a line". The latter comment makes sense if you are writing slapdash banal plays for money, not if you are writing what we have in the canon.
The context immediately before the quotation is Jonson chastising William for joking around too much, "His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Cæsar..."
Jonson is remembering William messing around with the lines. Nowhere does Jonson say in the text that William wrote Julius Caesar.
Jonson in Poet Ape and Ode To Himself talks about William buying and using old plays. He satirises North and William in Epicene and Every Man out of His Humour and satirises their relationship in Cynthia's Revels.
Shakespeare most likely authored what we have as the "Bad Quartos" i.e. the stage adapations of North's texts. He also likely wrote Merry Wives of Windor and probably the apocrypha. These trivial but successful works fit well with Jonson's criticism of Shakespeare as unlearned and something of a clown and his actors stating "he never blotted a line". The latter comment makes sense if you are writing slapdash banal plays for money, not if you are writing what we have in the canon.
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